The Great Pyramid
"Four-wheeled vehicle in the pyramid 4"
Yoshiki Sue
February 4, 2002
Now, let's try to find out the subject involved in the four-wheeled vehicle. I am going to review the excavation history of pyramid and make a list of people who would possibly be candidates. The Great Pyramid has been constructed about 4,500-5,000 years ago from now for a certain purpose, but we do not know what it was used for. Until the Roman period, the proper entrance to the pyramid was being identified. And I heard that the Roman people used to enter the pyramid from there to visit the "Subterranean Chamber" located deep under the ground through a descending passageway and left graffiti there. The love story between Caesar of Rome and Cleopatra, the Queen of the last dynasty, is very famous. The story dates back to about 48 B.C. Because it was in 30 B.C. that Egypt was placed under the Roman control, the graffiti must have been written about 2,000 years ago from now.
In the ninth century, the Arab was keeping Egypt under its rule. It was the period of the Arabian Nights. The entrance to the Great Pyramid has been already lost at that time, but Al Mamun, a feudal lord, was tempted to probe into the hidden internal structure of the pyramid. He built fires to heat the rock, poured cold vinegar, used battering rams, and finally managed to bore a hole into the pyramid. Then they happened to break into the Descending Passage by fortunate chance, and moreover, found their ways into the internal structure of the pyramid, which has been "sealed" until then, such as the Ascending Passageway, the Grand Gallery, the Queen's and King's Chambers for the first time. The reason why it is regarded to have been "sealed" is due to the fact that the
Roman graffiti were found only in the Subterranean Chamber connected to the Descending Passageway, and nothing like that has been identified in anywhere above the Ascending Passageway. Thus, the excavation history of the pyramid began with Am Mamun.
Now, I am going back in time as far as to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Egypt in those days was under the control of the Ottoman and then of the famous Napoleon Bonaparte. Several people inquired into the pyramid at that time.
In 1638, a British mathematician and astronomer, John Greaves, carried out an investigation. He was the first one to reveal that the pyramid has 207 steps.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a great mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who discovered the universal gravitation. This genius also has something to do with the pyramid. Yet, what he performed was not an exploration but a research regarding the unit of the length used in the ancient Egypt. It is commonly known that he discovered the universal gravitation by looking at an apple falling from a tree. But there is a theory emphasizing that this is merely a simple story made up afterward for the general public. It seems that Newton himself has actually made more theoretical approach and reached the discovery of the universal gravitation with the facts of interplanetary relationship. In order to do the calculations, he needed to find out the size of the earth. Then he imagined that the ancient Egyptian had a good knowledge of the size of the earth, and assumed that such knowledge must have been reflected on the units of length used in the ancient Egypt and thereby employed in the construction of the Great Pyramid.
In 1765, a British consul general in Algeria, Nathaniel Davison, managed to enter a narrow space just above the King's Chamber and named it "Davison's Chamber."
Then in 1817, Giovanni Caviglia --should probably be pronounced ka-vi-li-a --from Italy reopened what is called well-hole, which has been clogged with dust until then, connecting the Great Gallery and the Descending Passageway. Moreover, he also carried out an excavation at several points inside the pyramid for treasure-hunting. He made a large hole on the right (west) side of the passage leading from the Great Gallery to the King's Chamber. If you have a chance to visit the Great Pyramid sometimes in future, I would suggest you to have a short rest at the end of the Great Gallery and take a look at the hole made by Caviglia. (This is undisclosed information you can never find in any guidebook. Be sure to bring a flashlight with you.)
To be continued
Reference:
The report on the "four-wheeled vehicle" can be found in THE SECOND 1992 CAMPAIGN of his website. Click the address below. The fourth picture is the image of the four-wheeled vehicle.
http://www.cheops.org/startpage/theupuautstory/thesecond1992campaign/second92.htm
Here is the website of Rudolf Gantenbrink. You can go into the site simply by clicking the "ENTER" written on a stone-button down the screen. Then choose CYBER DRAWING, and click OK button for downloading. In a little while after clicking CHEOPS SHAFTS or other item, you will receive the drawing. You can try conducting the buttons on the top several times at first, and learn the operational procedure of the drawing.
http://www.cheops.org/
Translated by Maiko Noda
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